Albuquerque FBI agents are prompting residents to check their computers to see if they're infected after a worldwide cyberattack.

In an exclusive interview with Action 7 News, FBI agents said a group of hackers in Eastern Europe set up a massive scam that's infected millions of computers across the world.

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"The attack involves the reconfiguration of your computer by a remote actor, so it basically replaces the Internet phone book your computer uses to know where it should go," Supervisory Special Agent Brad Bleier said. "It's your computer that's been compromised. It's not some external part of the Internet. It's actually your machine that's been changed in a way that changes the behavior of your computer."

Agents said the hackers would use pop-ups and ads that would take computer users to a fake website, scamming advertisers and gaining access to personal information.

Now that the FBI has stopped the hackers, all those fake websites will be removed.